The quiet world of a petty bourgeois family begins to unravel from the moment 14-year-old Miriam meets her internet boyfriend. While her friends enthusiastically prepare the traditional quinceañera party, Miriam does not know how to explain to her family that her boyfriend is black.

Followed by an in-person Q&A with Natalia Cabral

About the directors

Natalia Cabral (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) and Oriol Estrada (Capellades, Barcelona) are award-winning filmmakers whose work lives on the borderlines of fiction and nonfiction. Graduates of the prestigious EICTV Cuban Film School, Natalia and Oriol found Faula Films in 2012 in order to provide a creative platform for the development and co-production of independent filmmaking in the Caribbean.

Miriam Lies (2018) is the couple’s first fiction feature film and is considered among the most notable films of Latin American cinema and is particularly outstanding within the showcase of Dominican Republic cinema.

 

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